Looks like Lower Merion School District’s current legal issues include not only their Web cam woes, but also a lawsuit from a former employee of Harriton High School.
Besslindora Goree, a former yearlong substitute, is suing the school district for racial and age-based discrimination, according to the Main Line Times.
In the lawsuit, Goree alleges the district broke a promise to hire her as a full-time employee.
She claims that the district had convinced her to relocate from Florida for the one-year position with the promise of a potential job afterward as a teacher.
After Goree’s one-year stint ended, school officials replaced her with a white woman in her mid-20s with fewer teaching credentials, the paper reports.
The 47-year-old African-American claims that her age and race prevented her from earning the long-term position.
During her time at Harriton, Goree helped with create a dual-enrollment college-credit program with Pennsylvania State University’s Brandywine campus.
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District officials dispute Goree’s claims that they promised her a position and insist that discrimination did not play a role in their selection of a new teacher.
Goree’s attorneys filed her suit in the federal court in Philadelphia last week.
